Moycarkey Castle

Moycarkey Castle, in Moycarky townland, County Tipperary, is a tower-house located inside a large rectangular bawn with round flanking towers at the north-eastern and south-western corners.

The castle was the central stronghold of the Cantwell family, underlords of the Butlers of Ormond, who had castles in other places as well, including one at Mellisson in the Slieve Ardagh barony[1] in the townland of Sandfordscourt.

An Edmund Cantwell of Moycarkey Castle had a daughter, Catherine, who married the Hon.

[citation needed] In 1889, Bassett's directory of the county noted that "[the castle] has a large square tower, with high surrounding wall.

A fissure in the tower was caused by lightning over a hundred years ago."